Monday, July 20, 2015

Cheaters Never Prosper

One of the things that people really learn to loath about me
is my self-righteousness. I can actually understand this, because there is
nothing worse than someone (like me) who often has an opinion and we believe
that we are so right that we will defend that opinion to the very gates of
Hell. It doesn’t mean I am going to change because life is what you make of it
and if you don’t stand for something then you are prone to fall for everything.
Something happened this week which is pure candy to a self-righteous ass like
myself and I want to get this out there so that those that don’t agree with me
can be pissed off (I like that) and those that do agree with me can take a victory
lap of self-righteousness.

It appears that Ashley Madison has been hacked. For those of
you who don’t know what Ashley Madison is, it is a website dedicated to married
people who would like to have an affair but don’t want it to ruin their
marriage. As a self-righteous ass I believe that when you have gotten to this
point you have ruined your marriage regardless of whether your spouse knows or
not. In this case you happen to be a lying cheater as well as a horrible
spouse, but I digress. The sources are doing damage control and explaining it
all away, but there have got to be countless thousands of lying, cheating married
folks out there that are sweating it out right now, and they should. You see
the old saying is, when you order shit you better be prepared to eat shit, and
the chances are pretty good that there is a nare do well out there with
information you really don’t want out in the open. Boo freaking hoo.

Yes, I have no sympathies here, and there is even a part of
me that is thinking, “What did you expect?” because we hear about hacking all
the time. Sure getting a bunch of credit cards is nice and all but real value
is in having information that could really ruin a person, and there are things
that money can’t buy, like say, a happy marriage? This of course brings out the
self-righteous ass in me better than anything because who doesn’t deserve a
happy marriage? You guessed it, a dirty rotten cheater. I mean I hope to see
memes with the evil black cat laughing at all of the Ashley Madison patrons,
regardless of what happens to their information. It will always be there in the
back of their minds, “Will today be the day?”

Now of course I would like to make this into a form of public
service announcement. I mean I really get offended by Ashley Madison. Not
because it is out there, because let’s face it people hook up on Craigslist and
rest areas at just about every truck stop. What really offends me is when I am
watching a television show and a commercial for Ashley Madison comes on. They
usually use a remake of a song from School House Rock (God that gets under my
skin) and they make it look perfectly normal to step outside the marriage. I am
sick of living in that world. Why does this offend me? Because I am watching
the show that this commercial comes on during which means they think I am the
target audience!

Wrong is wrong folks. Despite the generation of Oprah
Winfrey sitting on her couch with base common denominator sitting across from
her, and the two of them explaining that it is ok that they are stupid or
immoral, as long as they have “feelings” wrong is still wrong. We may love all
the television shows that treat base common denominator like heroes (what would
HBO or Showtime do otherwise?) but that is television. That is movies. In the
real world there aren’t that many people standing in line to explain away your
bad behavior if you aren’t a politician.

I have been bouncing around online for just about 20 years, so I have been there and have done that. It doesn't mean I didn't like it and wouldn't do it again. As most humans, I am a social animal. To be a social animal on the internet it is social media that binds us all together. I prefer Google + and Twitter but have pages on the other ones that I ignore, so you probably should too.

My Blogging

I blog a lot. If you don't like people that blog a lot then I don't know how you got here to begin with. You may want to just move along.

Contrary to popular opinion I hate politics, but have political opinions ..

The easiest way to get under my skin is to apply the "all you talk about is politics" tag. This is a common knee jerk reaction some have when they see something political, and unfortunately I don't hold back sometimes. As a matter of fact, I share more about health, fitness and blogging than politics, which you would know if you weren't busy dismissing me. I actually follow and interact with more people that disagree with me than agree with me politically. The list of "other than politics" seems to be growing everyday and it probably looks a lot like this: